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1 Kronenthaler - William I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Württemberg |
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| Year | 1825-1833 |
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| Weight | 29.4 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central quartered shield bearing the arms of Württemberg — three stags passant in the dexter quarters and three horizontal wavy bars in the sinister quarters — surmounted by a royal crown with cross finial. The shield is flanked by two elaborate sprays, an oak branch to the left and an olive branch to the right, tied together at the base with a ribbon bow. The denomination legend KRONEN THALER is divided on either side of the crown, and the date 1829. appears in the exergue below the wreath, all within a toothed border. |
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The Kronenthaler was not a native German creation but a Habsburg type, originally struck in the Austrian Netherlands in the 1750s and so widely trusted in southern German trade that it persisted as a de facto commercial currency long after the territories that produced it had changed hands. Württemberg's adoption of the type under William I was essentially pragmatic — merchants demanded it, and the Stuttgart mint obliged.
The 1825 opening of this series coincided with Germany's early customs union negotiations, which would eventually produce the Zollverein in 1834 — the very year this coinage ceased.